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Monthly Archives: January 2018

What my High School Pottery Teacher taught me about God

  When I was a teenager I took a beginning Ceramics class at school. Each day we sat at long tables shaping gray lumps of clay into pinch pots and coil bowls.  Meanwhile, the advanced students worked at the back of the classroom on the potters wheel.   As they worked we watched with admiration knowing it required a great deal of skill…

Tell your Daughter She’s Beautiful, or Else…

Many well-intentioned parents refrain from telling their daughters they’re pretty in hopes that they won’t grow up to be vain. But what if I told you that NOT telling your daughter she’s beautiful could not only contribute to her vanity but also put her at greater risk of sexual exploitation?   The selfie generation has created a whole…